Via TE an interesting article on the heterogeneous economic fortunes of the European Union. It is noted that Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain are struggling and the Germany dominates the economic view of the EU.
It is probably a mistake to view the EU in nationalist terms and instead view it in Federalist terms. For instance California and New York are the powerful economic states in the US and while it often gets noted they are so it is not with a nationalist or nativist understanding. (more)
A quick MLP;
The Constitution of the United State of America and Confederate States of America Compared.
- we touched on
confederacy
in a previous article;
News blogs as political agenda-setters
- includes
SSR
in its study.
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Deakin marked Thomas Playford from South Australia as a confederate. Deakin can be pretty nasty in his book to those who didn't share his views
or competed with him; ie George Reid
, so it might be good to check from the 1891 debates what Playford did actually foresee in the Australian Constitution.
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